Job 11:10
If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
In Context
9The measure of him is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
11For he knoweth the vanity of men, and when he seeth iniquity, doth he not consider it?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:30How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
Job 9:4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace ?
Job 12:14If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a. man, there is none that can open.
Job 38:8Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb :
Isaiah 14:27For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?
Daniel 4:35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him: for he doth according to his will, I as well with the powers of heaven, as among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none that can resist his hand, and say to him: Why hast thou done it?
Matthew Henry on Job 11:8-13
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? 11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Zophar here speaks very good… Read the whole commentary →